I mean can you imagine. singing about how somebody broke your heart and they're literally harmonizing. they're right fucking there. they're in touching distance. insanity! complete insanity! I would either break down crying or fully snap and break their neck

The smartphones/smart tech in their house:

When I first saw the music video for Montero (Call Me By Your Name), I just kept thinking about how I had never seen a music video like it, ESPECIALLY from such a well-known artist. I’ve seen plenty of videos where a man is being sexy, but never in the way that Lil Nas X does it in that video. He sings about riding dick while giving a lap dance. I’m sure there are so many music videos where a male singer does this, but I’ve never seen them because gay men who express their sexuality in that way are usually prevented from becoming household names.

And he is getting a lot of pushback for it. People are saying that he’s trying to indoctrinate children, that he’s pushing an agenda, that he’s part of the ruination of society. Gay men are seen as sex-crazy predators, and so are androgynous men. For him to make this video expressing himself and his sexuality in the way HE wanted to, knowing how people would take it, especially as a black man, and then attaching his real name to it?

It’s trending at #1 on youtube and there’s been a huge positive response to it, but he’s risking a lot by releasing this video. The whole theme of the video is religious persecution, and we’re seeing that exact thing happen to him in real time. He’s being called a sinner, he’s being told he’s going to hell, he’s being told that god doesn’t love him. 

This song and video are resonating with SO MANY people. People who grew up with a religion that teaches that people like them are wrong, with parents who seek to destroy what they do not understand,  who have had a closeted partner who only told them they loved them in private, who told themselves that they would never come out to anyone, with people who have struggled with internalized homophobia. 

Since the world already has their eyes on Lil Nas X, he’s decided to represent himself the way he wants to and tell the stories he wants to tell. From this video to wearing a bright pink leather harness on the red carpet to doing drag on halloween, he is showing everyone that he is not ashamed of who he is and he’s willing to put himself and his career at risk to be that person. By doing this, he’s showing others that people like him exist and it’s ok and it’s good.

Before WWI, Adolf Hitler was a no-name loser transient hanging out between Vienna and Munich. He was from an upper middle class background but became dirt poor, not due to injustice or misfortune, but rather through his own stupidity, ego, and refusal to get an actual job. He made a living drawing kitschy mediocre paintings for tourists while living in a hostel for homeless people. He got his opinions from racist tabloids and from passive absorption of Nietzsche. A man of below average intelligence, mediocre talents, little social skills and very, very little maturity.

The Hitler I see is not a mastermind or evil genius. He was a thoroughly mediocre man, a deeply awkward and childish man who never let go of his teenage years (which he called the best years of his life in Mein Kampf lmao), a man who seems ironclad resistant to letting go of his daydreams and joining the real world.

And that was Hitler. Hitler never progressed from that. He remained a mediocre, immature loser from the days he was a Vienna transient until his death in the bunker in 1945. He only gained one talent: A trained ability to manipulate, abuse and persuade people into submission, and he used that one talent well to lie, cheat, bluff, torture, two-time and scam his way into his role in history: The overseer of the industrial slaughter of the European Jews. Anyone else could have filled that role instead of him, he just happened to trip his way into the position.